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UNTTso STATES PATENT @FFICEO lIll'tiH FULLENDICH .\.\'I) SlEPlIFN Dll(iAlllAt), OV NIV YORK. X. Y.; Hall) [),ll GAETANO SSIGNUH r1"() Sll)(TOILL'IGNIHCR.

POOL-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,581, datei March 4,1884.

Applieation tiled January .'t. lrsl.

",e it known that we. llton tt'iLLnN- nick and S'rnenlcN nn (il Muvo,both otXew York eity, in the eounty ot' New York and State of New York,have invented an lmproved loolllaek; and we do hereby deelare that thefollowingl is a l'nll, elear.y and exact description thereot',rel'ereneebeing had tothe accompanying drawings, makingl part otthisapplieation.

(.)ur invention relates to eertain new and useful improvements in thatkindoi'pool-raeks whieh are adapted to et't'eet the auttnmitie diseharget'ronl the shelves ot' all the balls enntained thereon` in order thatthey maybe eolleeted rapidly in some suitable reeeptaele in whieh theymay be Carried bythe gaine-keeper tothe table tinplaeelnent thereon; andit eon sists in the novel deviees and combinations of deviees hereinat'ter more fully deseribed. and most partieularly pointed ont in the elaimsot' this speeitieation.

`To enable those skilled in the art to whieh our invention relates tomake and use poolraelts eontaininek` the same, we will now proeeed tomore t'ully deseribe the eonstrumion and operation uta eontrivaneeembraeilre` our improvements, referring by letters to theaeeompanyingdrawir1gs,wl1ioh form part o1' this speciieation, and inwhich we have shown our invention Carried ont in that Yorin in which wehave so far practiced it.

In the drawings, Figure l is a face or l'ront View ot' a pta'rl-raekiliade aeeording lo our invention. Fig. L is a vertical sectionthereof'7 taken at the lino .r .r ot' lfig. l. Fig. 8 isa partial frontview, with portions removed in order to better show the interioreonstruetion. Fig. 4 is a detail view, showing partially one ofthepertorated vertical partitions. Fig. 5is a horizontal or eross seetionat the line 1/ y; ot' Figa l, and Fig. o is a tace or lfront view ot' arack of moditied construction.

In the several figures the saine part will be found designated loy thesame letters ot` reference.

a are the shelves i'or the balls, and they are all secured at theirVl'ront eorners to two verti eal strips, e f', and at their 1' arCorners to strips l) I, which hold them all securely in a (Nomadelafixed relative position. and whieh together with said .shelveseonstitute a skeleton set ot1 shelves eapable ot' movenwnt bodily up anddown within the ease or body ot' the raek. as will be presentlyexplained.

,lhe ease or body ol.' the raek consists, essen tially. of a baek board,fl, a base, n, a top, (l, and double sides f/ Il, the innerl]oards.g,te11n ine` the vertical partitions against which the ends of'the shelves u abut, while the outer boards, t'orln the outer edgesol'the raek, as shown. The partitions y; are eaeh perforated with aseries ot'holes. equal in number to the number ot' shelves a, and eat'hslightly greater in diameter than the diannfler ot' a ptml-ball. and.the distanees between the partitions .r/ and the outer side pieces, Il,are sueh that a verti eal passageway is t'ormed at eaeh side of the raekotsut'tieient eapaeity te serve as a eonduit I'or the balls to deseendfrom any of the shelves tft'rl'nn whieh they may pass into said eonduitlto the bottom ot'the raek. The baek strips ot' the set ot shelves arefitted to slide vertieally in reeesses or seats in the baek board IE,see Fig'. Tijl their upward movement being limited by stops at s. lheeFig. l.)

e are fillets seenred to the 'aee of the raek near each side, andpro'ieetingI slightly over the front edges ot' the set; ot shelves a,(see Figs. `l and 5ft so as to retain the shelves in plaee. laeh shell'n. has its top surface inelined downwardly l'rom the middle toward eaehend, as plainly shown at Fig. l, and also made slightly dishing orinclined trom the front to the rear edge, see ljig. 2.) and the bottomof eaeh eireular hole in eaeh partition n r/ isloeated more or lessabove the top surfaiee ot' the end portion ot' the shelf u next belowlsaid shelf. The object ot' the tlloubly-inelined surface, endwise ot'eaeh shelf is to conduce to distribution of theballs toward oppositeends of the same and different shelves, in order that in discharging theContents of the shelves all the balls may not he crowded into one onlyot' the vertical conduits referred to, and the ineli nation backward 0rdishing ont widthwise of eaeh shelfis to prevent any ball from tumblingoil' of any shell forwardly.

Just beneath the lower one of the shelves a, preferably. is placed aneeeentrie button or lifter device, i, which is provided, for convenienceof manipulation, with a handle, j, by means of which it may be turned.',lhe function of this device is to lift up the set of shelves until thestops at s s prevent. them from further upward movement, and this extentof upward movement is such as to just bring the top surfaces ol' the endportions of all the shelves on a level with the bottoms or lower` mostparts ofthe circular holes in the stationary perforated partitions g y.

At the lower ends of the vertical conduits or passages (formed betweenthe partitions gg and side pieces, l1 lz, ofthe rack) are arrangedinclined guideways in m, onto which any balls that may deseen d withinsaid passa ge-wav will fall, and by which they will be guided toward themiddle of the floor or base board u ol' the pool-rack.

o o are rubber cushions, arranged on top oi' and near the uppermostportions of the lguideways m in, as shown. These rubbers are for thedescending balls to strike on, and serve not only to prevent undueabrasion of the surfaces ofthe ball, but also to render the crnitrivaucemore noiseless in its action.

`The operation ofthe eoutrivance shown and thus far decribed will beeasily undcrstotul to be as follows: Supposing the gamelieeper to haveplaced lor the players to have put.) all the poeketed balls upon all oron several of the shelves a, (some having, rolled toward one end of oneshell' and some toward the opposite end on another shelf) and it isdesired to collect the balls for replacement on the table. The set ofshelves are simply lifted or elevat ed (by turning' the handlej, andthus operating the lii'teul when the ends ot' all the shelves being thusbrought into proper relationship with all the holes in thc two verticalVpartitions yy, all the balls will roll by gravity through these holes,and, falling; down through the passageways or vertical conduits, willroll down over the guideways m m, and out onto the lioor or base n ofthe pool-rack, from whence or at which locality they may be gatheredinto a suitable tray or otherwise, as usual.

At Fig. o' we have shown, in front elevation, a modified forni ofpool-rack made according.;I to our invention, in which the shelves,instead of each having its top surface inclined in opposite directionfrom the middle toward each end, each has its top surface inclined fromone end to the other, the inclination oi' the shelves 'being alternatelyin opposite directions, so

that every other shelf will discharge into the saine conduit, and onehalf of them will discharge their contents into one conduit andthe otherhalf into the other. This arrangement and construction of shelves wedeem, probably, the best shown, for even should the marker enter allballs placed in the rack at one side of the rack, the balls must getdistributed to the different conduits. in this` ligure we have shown thefront edges ol' all the shelves covered or hidden by straight facings orllets so that the structure presents a more symmetrical appearance thanif the oppositely oblique shellsurlaees or front cdges were visible.

0f course the lifting device shown may be dispensed with, and the set ofshelves lifted by taking hold of the lower part of any one ot' them, andother changes of the details may be made without departingl from thepith of our invention, which rests in the combination of a set ofshelves, that may be lifted, with side conduits perforated so that whenlifted the shelves will autoinatimill)v l iseharge their contents intothe chutes.

V'hat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with vert ical side conduits or passage-ways andsuitable supporting means, a set of shelves which are free to be movedup and down, and stationary perforated partitions between said conduitsand said set ot' shelves, all substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

L. ln eonibination with a lifting set of shelves, and means for thedischarge of their contents into ball-conduits, as explained, a devicefor elevating the shelves, all as set forth.

23. ,ln combination with a movable set of shelves and side conduits, asdescribed, a stop or stops to regulate the extent to which thc shelvescan be lifted to insure the coincidence of the shelves with thc openingsthrough which the balls must pass to get from the shelves into theconduits, as set forth.

1. l'n combination with a vertical conduit or passz'ige-way i'or thefall of the balls in a pool-rack, a rubber or other cushion to break thefall and render the descent oi' the balls less noisy, as set forth.

fitness our handsthislilth davol'January, lill: l'

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